Oct 19

Embarking on a new project (and I need your help!)

Peggy (the grade 6 social studies teacher) and I are just about to start a new integrated IT/social studies project on sub-saharan Africa from 500-1700CE. At the same time, I’m completing an Ed Leadership certificate and right now we’re working on the ideas presented in Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design. Since I am…

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Oct 17

K12 Online begins with a bang!

I just finished watching David Warlick’s pre-conference keynote for the K12 Online conference which is officially starting next week. Wow. For starters, I think it’s so amazing to see and hear someone make a keynote presentation in North Carolina, USA from the comfort of my own home in faraway Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Especially someone that…

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Oct 12

Why are we doing this? Part II

I recently posted about faculty members questioning the validity of teaching technology. So, I created a new page on my wiki to help explain why teaching technology is so important, but of course that’s not enough… As I click through the hundreds of feeds in my RSS reader, I am quite relieved to see that…

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Oct 11

Wiki Wonderland

I am really starting to get the hang of this whole wiki thing this week. Yes, last week I posted a link to the page on my wiki where I try to convince all teachers that we need to embrace new technologies, but I didn’t really understand how much this technology would change my teaching…

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